Re: [PATCH v5 next 0/5] Improve Module autoloading infrastructure

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

Now, the above will not necessarily work with a legacy /dev/ directory
where al the nodes have been pre-populated, and opening the device
node is supposed to load the module. So _historically_ we did indeed
load modules as normal users. But does that really happen any more?

Sadly, it looks like bluetoothd actually does expect to load the
bt-proto-XYZ modules with no capabilities at all.

So apparently we really do depend on not needing capabilities for
module loading.

Oh well.

                 Linus